Cordesman's dark vision for Iran

So in clear, concise and chillingly forensic style, Cordesman spells out that the real stakes in the crisis that is building over Iran's nuclear ambitions would certainly include the end of Persian civilization, quite probably the end of Egyptian civilization, and the end of the Oil Age. This would also mean the end of globalization and the extraordinary accretions in world trade and growth and prosperity that are hauling hundreds of millions of Chinese and Indians and others out of poverty.

http://www.metimes.com/Opinion/2007/11/22/analysis_a_mideast_nuclear_war/4411/

So there you have it. All the numbers, that lead to little less than Armageddon. But Armageddon is what the Seyyeds want. And it is very hard for the West to believe that weirdos like these, can be in charge of a whole country. But they are.